The forbidden motorcycle club Hardliners may have played a role in the artok in the Drents Museum. Gang members would have recruited implementers of the burglary.
Hardliners was founded in 2019 from prison by the former management of the also forbidden motorcycle club Hells Angels. Last year hardliners were also banned by the judge. According to the Noord-Holland District Court, there is a culture at the motorcycle club in which the committing of criminal offenses is stimulated, facilitated and dedicated “.
Hardliners would have helped with the articothe in recruiting the burglars, report well -entered sources to RTL News. “She is promised 15,000 euros per person,” says a source from the criminal circuit. One of the suspects would be one prospectare an aspiring member of hardliners.
During the burglary, valuable art pieces, including the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, were captured as negotiating material. A Romanian criminal would like to return the art treasures in exchange for reducing or remission of his sentence.
A source close to the police investigation therefore assumes that the treasures are still intact. “The instructions are piling up that the helmet did not melt. It is probably close to Heerhugowaard somewhere in a towel.”
The Public Prosecution Service does not want to say anything about it for the time being. “This is such a sensitive matter,” says a source. “If the Netherlands speaks of a Romanian client, a diplomatic riot will immediately break.”
A total of six men and one woman were arrested for the theft. Three men are still stuck. The art treasures were for the exhibition Dacia Empire of gold and silver In Assen on loan of the National Historical Museum in Bucharest.